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Elon musk settles SEC fraud charges, agrees to pay penalty fees and step down as chairman of the board sec.gov #

UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International privacyinternational.org #

Remi Sharp lists his favourite improved CLI tools remysharp.com #

Remi on maintaining the popular open source nodemon library, receiving donations, tools and motivation remysharp.com #

Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying theguardian.com #

My Oxford interview consisted of 3 lecturers laughing at me for not being able to answer questions on topics not covered by the curriculum then saying "We'll put you out of your misery" when they eventually gave me the answers en.wikipedia.org #

Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data medium.com #

Indonesia tsunami toll soars amid push to save survivors (800 people dead) nytimes.com #

Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued - "there just aren’t many non-users left" pewresearch.org #

Creating meaningful micro-interactions uxplanet.org #

Creating Users, Not Addicts medium.com #

Hacker changes his mind and cancels livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page engadget.com #

Indonesia earthquake and tsunami - At least 30 dead in Palu bbc.com #

BBC talks to Linus Torvalds about his "be more polite" personal direction bbc.com #

Society creates drug users and then calls them the abusers en.wikipedia.org #

Facebook security update about having to force logout 90 million users newsroom.fb.com #

Facebook is another titan tech company that has removed support contacts from their "Help Center" pages facebook.com #

Static Marks - Convert your plain bookmark files into a static web app (and version control with git) staticmarks.com #

Google makes it easier to keep track of travel research engadget.com #

I really like the idea of Google Trips, but why isn't there a web UI to go with the iOS and Android apps? get.google.com #

Javascript feature support for Node.js node.green #

node.cool - Delightful Node.js packages and resources github.com #

LinkedIn appear to have removed ways to contact customer support from their website linkedin.com #

SEC announces it is suing Elon Musk over “false and misleading public statements” (tweets), Tesla's stock price drops buzzfeednews.com #

Definition - Artificial Intelligence en.wikipedia.org #

How to Brexit? - Explore the (im)possibilities of the different Brexit scenarios news.ycombinator.com #

Burger King vs Artificial Intelligence thenextweb.com #

Interesting solar powered website out of Barcelona - How to Build a Low-tech Website? solar.lowtechmagazine.com #

T-Writer.js is a native typewriter-effect library chriscavs.github.io #

You Need Feeds - Clear information about how to start using web feeds to read your favourite websites youneedfeeds.com #

PM2 used to run Node.js processes in production deployments, now support running Python processes blog.pm2.io #

Native extensions for Nodejs - Useful in understanding the Nodejs stack in more depth nan-labs.com #

Daniel Johnston and the Rhythm Rats - "Hard Time" youtube.com #

Tethered Together or Poles Apart? Japan and India - A Cultural Comparison bootsnall.com #

What is Modular CSS? spaceninja.com #

New Copyright Powers, New "Terrorist Content" Regulations - A Grim Day For Digital Rights in Europe eff.org #

Google addressing account sign-in, cookie clearing controversies in Chrome 70 9to5google.com #

uBlock Origin gets option to block all JavaScript execution by default zdnet.com #

HN Thread about the Google Chrome Forced Login Situation - Product Updates Based on Your Feedback news.ycombinator.com #

Eric Schmidt predicts internet to bifurcate into Chinese-led and US-led versions within the next decade cnbc.com #

Why I'm leaving Micro.blog blog.bellebcooper.com #

Instagram’s Co-Founders to Step Down “to explore our curiosity and creativity again” nytimes.com #

Deno - Node.js killer? medium.com #

Chrome now auto logs you in (forced-login) to the browser when you log in to a Google service (confusing) ha.x0r.be #

Amazon is looking more like a traditional retail company with a loyalty program, house brands and advertising medium.learningbyshipping.com #

Stunning Photos of Kyrgyzstan and Its Untouched Landscape mymodernmet.com #

News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder Graig Newmark newsprimeglobal.com #

Why I’m done with Chrome blog.cryptographyengineering.com #

The history of the ice trade - Why Iceland doesn't actually have that much ice digg.com #

White House proposes executive order to Trump that would examine tech companies’ practices thehill.com #

US-China trade - US imposes biggest round of tariffs yet bbc.com #

A pretty good explanation of the tricky part of linux shell output redirection superuser.com #

Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ nytimes.com #

PayPal bans Infowars for promoting hate theverge.com #

Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of "mispricing" can be tracked by their writing styles boingboing.net #

Discover the Incredible Story of One Man’s Mission to Paint a Massive Mural in Cairo mymodernmet.com #

Using async/await in ExpressJS middlewares acuriousanimal.com #

express-promise-router - Wrapper for Express 4's Router that allows middleware to return promises npmjs.com #

Google suppresses memo revealing plans to closely track search users in China theintercept.com #

Google defends Gmail data sharing, gives few details on violations reuters.com #

China's “pay-for-knowledge” podcast industry estimated $7.3B, US ad-driven podcast industry $314M marketplace.org #

Elon Musk - Yusaku Maezawa "Moon Loop" Press Conference youtube.com #

James Clark passes through the UAE - A day in Dubai nomadicnotes.com #

Fun Fun Function new feature - Developer interviews - Isa Silveira youtube.com #

Humanity - makers of land mines and other tools of war en.wikipedia.org #

Life Begins at Forty en.wikipedia.org #

The Science Behind 100,000-View Blog Posts animalz.co #

Revue - newsletter building tool with Stripe integration so you can charge a fee getrevue.co #

Surveillance news - Insurance companies are starting to require customers wear Fitbit tracking devices mobile.twitter.com #

Professional photographer Zach Arias interviews Unsplash founder Mikael Cho dedpxl.com #

Bundle your Node app to a single executable for Windows, Linux and OSX dev.to #

Following the lead of the Node.js project, AMP moves to an open governance model amphtml.wordpress.com #

Mozilla releases Firefox Reality, it's web browser for VR, available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores zdnet.com #

Shopify’s adds AR shopping support for 600,000 stores - preview items in your home using iOS AR theverge.com #

Interview with Vimsy Founder, creator centric online service for creating video channels indiehackers.com #

Wade Shepard - Getting The YouTube Channel Caught Up (Vlog) vagabondjourney.com #

Nice to see Twitter listening to it's users and adding chronological/algorithmic feed switcher feature theverge.com #

Stripe expands e-commerce offering into bricks and mortar in-person payments recode.net #

Stripe Terminal - The programmable point of sale (currently US invite only) stripe.com #

npm scoped packages - a way of grouping related packages together (they don't seem to be used much) docs.npmjs.com #

US-China tectonic plates moving again, $200bn worth of opportunities for entrepreneurs bbc.co.uk #

Musk unveils first tourist for SpaceX 'Moon loop' - Japanese online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa bbc.com #

AI Def - Bomb The Bass Ft. Will Self - 5 Ml. Barrel youtube.com #

Run node scripts using nvm and crontab without hardcoding the node version gist.github.com #

This Overview captures an incredible blanket of tones in the trees of Bow, New Hampshire getrevue.co #

Attack of the killer Jedi! The bizarre story of Turkish Star Wars theguardian.com #

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Latest Coen Brothers Film Official Trailer) youtube.com #

What is the meaning of LinkedIn? techcrunch.com #

Astronomers have found the universe's missing matter wired.com #

Korean 'Uncle Service' - Great but what happens when the bullies team up with the bigger billies huh? boingboing.net #

Linus Torvalds is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance lore.kernel.org #

Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff to buy Time magazine bbc.co.uk #

It's very difficult to get Digital Ocean to answer important questions about the articles they (apparently) write digitalocean.com #

Six things that make a great software developer blog.usejournal.com #

Has anyone open sourced part of your company's software? indiehackers.com #

Back-end Developer Hiring Guide 2018 - Salaries, Freelance Rates, and More codementor.io #

Noam Chomsky - I would vote for Jeremy Corbyn youtube.com #

Print the global node_modules directory - npm root -g docs.npmjs.com #

List just the top-level modules - npm list --depth=0 coderwall.com #

The definitive Node.js handbook - surprisingly concise yet comprehensive overview of Nodejs medium.freecodecamp.org #

The Serverless Framework is an open-source CLI for building and deploying serverless applications serverless.com #

Standard Library - Serverless platform to build, ship, host, document, scale and integrate with APIs stdlib.com #

Node.js v10.10.0 released - fs.readdir withFileTypes option looks like it could be useful nodejs.org #

Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default medium.com #

How to Measure Churn Rate From Product User Activity iglooanalytics.com #

Celebrating 10 years of V8 v8project.blogspot.com #

Evolution of the V8 code base over the years (Best watched at x4 speed) youtube.com #

The original Google Chrome comic google.com #

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine github.com #

The official mirror of the V8 Git repository github.com #

iPhone XS and 6.5-inch XS Max announced - Big phones are officially cool theverge.com #

Switch Between Desktop Spaces Faster in Mac OS X with Control Keys osxdaily.com #

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ theverge.com #

freeCodeCamp - Learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs freecodecamp.org #

How can we find which process is using a particular port? askubuntu.com #

Latest OSX issue that is literally killing me - trackpad gone rogue (I've had to completely disable my trackpad) intowindows.com #

The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch infrequently.org #

Flowering Jungle by Monster Rally (Gold Robot Records) - Album Inspired by the sounds, visuals, and animals of a half-century's worth of travel and nature documentaries monsterrally.bandcamp.com #

Bandcamp Daily - Your guide to the world of Bandcamp daily.bandcamp.com #

Definition - Artificial Intelligence en.wikipedia.org #

The man who can laugh for hours on end bbc.com #

Moving static sites from a VPS to Netlify alexpearce.me #

Building a Stats Page for Jekyll Blogs raymondcamden.com #

Jekyll::Compose - Streamline your writing in Jekyll with some commands github.com #

John Deere wins "right to tractor repair" battle against farmers in California boingboing.net #

Older folk smoking more weed boingboing.net #

Legendary Steve Caballero on 'Skater's Favorite Skater' boingboing.net #

Oh noes - EU Approves Amended Copyright Filtering Law That Could Ruin The Internet digg.com #

Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Space Force and Space Debris digg.com #

Chrome DevTools - Debugging Node.js Application Using ndb nitayneeman.com #

What is a CLA and why do I care? clahub.com #

Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project ben.balter.com #

Jekyll cheatsheet devhints.io #

Why European creators must oppose the EU's proposal to limit linking and censor the internet boingboing.net #

Map the News - dynamic headline visualization using the News API (Interesting project) medium.com #

Can You Monetize Your Blog Using Patreon? leavingworkbehind.com #

Popular mac app stole users' browsing history and sent it to China buzzfeednews.com #

Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history 9to5mac.com #

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue - 'There's a real bright road ahead for publishers' thedrum.com #

Software developers are now more valuable to companies than money cnbc.com #

stream-handbook - how to write node programs with streams github.com #

Apple’s Shazam acquisition cleared by EU regulators techcrunch.com #

Algorithms are protected by the First Amendment (algorithm output is considered corporate speech) cjr.org #

This OSX issue is literally killing me: Preserve Window Spaces Placement Between Restarts apple.stackexchange.com #

Definition - Artificial Intelligence en.wikipedia.org #

Auschwitz concentration camp en.wikipedia.org #

Node core modules location stackoverflow.com #

A Beginner’s Guide To Reading Node.js Core Source youtube.com #

You Don't Know Node.js youtube.com #

Joe Rogan Podcast - Elon Musk podcasts.joerogan.net #

Latest topics from the EFF - "Don't Break The Internet" - EU regulation, net neutrality, Google China, surveillance in Australia and more eff.org #

Longcaller - Cryptocurrencies explained in simple words longcaller.com #

JavaScript Getters and Setters in ES5 javascriptplayground.com #

The ‘Capable Web’ - A 10 Year Retrospective blog.chromium.org #

Accessibility is not a feature ethanmarcotte.com #

Advice on creating customized portfolios - The "Multiple Portfolio Strategy" danmall.me #

An Intro to Web Site Testing with Cypress - Specialises in end-to-end/integration testing css-tricks.com #

After Multiple Provocations, Twitter Has Banned Alex Jones And Infowars buzzfeednews.com #

Vimeo pivots business from media to tech - To selling subscriptions to tools for people to make content axios.com #

Maker Magazine launches a job board - The Job Board for the Maker Community jobs.makershare.com #

Google is investigating ways to replace the URL - Apparently "Everyone is unsatisfied by URLs" wired.com #

Gitcoin - Organises bounties on open source projects, developers get paid in etherium based coins gitcoin.co #

Kubernetes 101 - Short article as a high-level overview stavros.io #

Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’ techcrunch.com #

Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level - "Designated communications providers" nytimes.com #

EU officials announce that 30% local content quotas for streaming services to become law variety.com #

Chrome 69 released - It’s been ten years since Chrome was first released! developers.google.com #

MailMason uses Grunt, Handlebars, and Sass in conjunction with layouts and partials to create both the HTML and plain text versions of your transactional emails postmarkapp.com #

Financial Modeling for Startups - An Introduction fivecastfinancial.com #

Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops firstround.com #

How viral loops and good design can result in real-world product virality medium.com #

In the three weeks following the Facebook and YouTube ban, Alex Jones' Infowars audience has fell by roughly half nytimes.com #

Amazon’s Plan to Reach 500 Million Indians: Speak Their Language nytimes.com #

Unpaid and abused - Moderators speak out against Reddit engadget.com #

What we're buying - A potent audio sampler that fits in your pocket engadget.com #

Pope Francis Embraces Silence as Calls Grow for Response to Allegations nytimes.com #

The effort required to build a design system is tiny compared to the effort required to maintain it ux.shopify.com #

Communique to five eyes countries tech companies says governments want backdoors theregister.co.uk #

UK media groups call for oversight of social networks ft.com #

Experts Call for Transparency Around Google’s Chinese-Made Security Keys motherboard.vice.com #

India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants nytimes.com #

How a SaaS startup got its first 1,000 users (Codegiant) blog.codegiant.io #

What questions would you ask a marketer? indiehackers.com #

California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country, EFF calls it "a gold standard net neutrality bill" theverge.com #

Twitter is testing threaded replies and status indicators theverge.com #

Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript? (Interesting perspective) blog.sourcerer.io #

Why you should replace forEach with map and filter in JavaScript gofore.com #

Mozilla announces Firefox will block trackers by default venturebeat.com #